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🗓️ 26 September 2018
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Your FAQs answered! This week I interview my old friend Jeremy Benn, longtime Orvis employee and head of our Outfitter Team in Roanoke , Virginia. These are the wonderful people who answer all your tackle questions via e-mail, telephone, and live chat. There are certain questions they get (and I get on podcast requests) over and over again, including: What rod do I need for….? Can I use the same fly rod outfit for … and >>>? Do I really get something more when I buy a more expensive rod? How much backing do I need? What leader do I need for …? I am going to …. What flies do I need? What is the best knot? In the Fly Box this week, here is a sample of the kinds of questions I try to answer: How do I become a fishing guide? When do I fish upstream and when do I fish downstream? Why do you put barrel swivels on your braided leaders? (We don’t.) How do you avoid breaking your rod when getting flies out of trees? What will be the effects of the recent hurricane on trout and saltwater fishing in North Carolina? How often do you fish parachutes and Sparkle Duns as opposed to traditional dry flies? How long can you keep a trout in a net if it has cool running water in the net? Can I use my switch rod for schoolie stripers? What flies should I use for landlocked Atlantic salmon? How do I target cruising salmon and steelhead on the Chicago shoreline? What happened to the Orvis app? Why can’t I catch trout in tailwaters on streamers from my canoe? Plus two great fly-tying tips from a listener.
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0:00.0 | Today on the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast. |
0:05.0 | You can tell if you're wrong, right? |
0:09.0 | If you've got a tip that's too fine, |
0:12.0 | and you've got a big bushy dry fly. It's probably going to twist, |
0:15.6 | land on the water in a heap and not turn over very well. If you're going the other way |
0:20.0 | and it's too stiff, the fly's just not going to drip correctly. It's going to |
0:23.2 | look awkward on the water. |
0:24.3 | Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast. This podcast is |
0:29.8 | being recorded on September 25th, 2018. |
0:35.0 | And you just heard a little bit of my interview |
0:38.8 | with my old friend Jeremy Ben from Roan, who manages our team of outfitters or specialists in fly fishing and |
0:51.5 | bird shooting down in Roanoke. |
0:53.5 | And we're going to be talking about your frequently asked questions, |
0:59.4 | the questions that are most often asked, |
1:01.2 | both in the podcast and to the specialist in Roanoke and how they can help |
1:06.1 | you make decisions on things. |
1:08.8 | So I think you'll enjoy that. |
1:13.3 | As always, if you have a question for the podcast, you can email me at podcast at Orvis.com, or you can call and leave a message at 802 362 8800. |
1:27.0 | This is loud taking from Tulsa, Oklahoma, the flyfish and capital of the world. |
1:32.0 | Okay, not really. |
1:34.0 | I have a quick question about my dream job to be a fly fishing guide. |
1:40.0 | I'm a second year college student at Oklahoma State University and I was wondering if you think being a guide in the summer would be a good job for a college student and a landlocked state. |
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